Guns shops tired of noobs?

[CLT65]

Unfortunately yes. He's a hard core union guy, and whatever they say is gospel.

 

[Phantom Man]

I heard that blacks voted for Trump double what they did for Romney. And Blacks make up the largest growth in gun buying. It's an opportunity for Republicans.

 

[ma96782]

These new gun owners as ignorant as they are will be supporting gun rights so let's figure out how to support them.

Alot of them already made a big mistake by voting for you know who.

I wonder if by early next year they'll be claiming......

"I didn't know."

Aloha, Mark

 

[sobo]

...
The AXO rejoined - 'Six weeks to get around 9000 acres? Boy, you guys sure are some slowcoaches down there! You need to get an airplane!'

'Oh, you're talking about ACRES? I'm talking about square MILES*, and BTW, we use four helicopters...'

*576,000 acres.

5,760,000 acres

Fixed it for ya

 

[Lilhigbee]

He was, beyond any doubt, the definition of smarta$$ personified. I would personally have spat in his hat. I can NOT abide the 'I've been doing XYZ longer than you have, have got more trophies than you have, more guns etc than you have' kind of guy.

It's a sad but telling thing that a few Americans coming over here to Europe, where things are generally a lot smaller, although a lot older, take it upon themselves to make others feel small by comparison with their possessions/achievements.

I may have mentioned that I was once the Chief Instructor at a specialist INTEL school here in UK, with students from all over the Commonwealth as well as NATO and other 'guest' nations, like Finland, Ukraine, Brazil and so on. We also had an USAF exchange officer [AXO] - a captain - on the staff as a three-year post. In an act of revenge the RAF sent one of their Flight Lieutenants to the US equivalent of our set-up.

This particular day the AXO was doing his Texan thang about how big his father-in-law's ranch was, and mentioned a figure of about 25 thousand or so, and how it took three days to get around it. Our resident Australian Warrant Officer piped up with 'Wow!! That's HUGE!!!!! Our station [Oz for ranch] is thought of as pretty big and we've only got 9000, but I have to admit that it can take us about six weeks to get around it...'

The AXO rejoined - 'Six weeks to get around 9000 acres? Boy, you guys sure are some slowcoaches down there! You need to get an airplane!'

'Oh, you're talking about ACRES? I'm talking about square MILES*, and BTW, we use four helicopters...'

*576,000 acres.

That would be Anna Creek Station, and I believe the largest private land-holding in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station
The 73 largest stations in Australia, every one of them larger than the King Ranch, which is the largest in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_stations_in_Australia

 

[03A3Sporter]

That would be Anna Creek Station, and I believe the largest private land-holding in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station
The 73 largest stations in Australia, every one of them larger than the King Ranch, which is the largest in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_stations_in_Australia

To be fair while those Australian Stations may be geographically larger none of them run the number of cattle that the King Ranch runs every year just as a matter of regular business.

The King Ranch typically supports OVER 35,000 cattle a year every year . Anna Creek supports less than half that number in a good year.

It has nothing to do with how much land you have but how many animals the land can support when it comes to ranching , I say this coming from one of the top 10 cattle producing states.

 

[Nibbs]

How big is Mic Dundee's Spread?

 

[awshoot]

I heard that blacks voted for Trump double what they did for Romney. ...

Trump gained in every demographic EXCEPT white males where he lost support. This has the "identity is destiny" crowd in the DNC changing their undies.

Donald Trump Made Gains in Every Demographic Except For White Men

The president increased his vote share among Black and Latino voters in comparison to 2016, according to exit polling.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Nibbs]

Interesting, but can that be trusted any more than the rest of the made up Pols/ Guesstimate Opinions?

 

[awshoot]

Interesting, but can that be trusted any more than the rest of the made up Pols/ Guesstimate Opinions?

The way I understand it, pollsters are having real trouble with people not giving them honest answers over the phone because of the issue of privacy -- it would be easy to leak phone numbers and answers, and then with a phone number, it is easy to name the person.

In contrast, exit polls are seen as more anonymous (providing no pictures are being taken) because the questions are not correlated to a phone number (or for online polls, an IP address). The thinking is that people are more honest in exit polls because they are less likely to be identified.

Secondly, even if some people lied (and we would presume that would be by saying they voted for Biden -- nobody is getting beat up or fired unless they voted for Trump) -- the percentage of people who lied is probably not less than last time around and so it shows the magnitude of increase to some degree even if not precisely. The only way this increase would be irrelevant, is if people were more dishonest this time about voting for Biden than they were for Hillary, in other words, if more people who voted for Biden lied and said they voted for Trump. I just don't see that type of lying as any part of our reality.

 

[RVTECH]

These new gun owners as ignorant as they are will be supporting gun rights so let's figure out how to support them.

Support them? I don't think so - they need to show and prove THEIR support for US.

Sorry, but I have a dim view of anyone who stands in line to buy a gun out of nothing but fear, with no previous experience and, for whatever reason thinks it is going to be their 'saving grace'.

These people are misguided and are being influenced by what are probably less than practical sources, and probably to some degree the firearms industry itself trying to make a buck off the 'fear'.

IF this is in fact what firearm ownership has become for some, a possible harbinger of the future as nothing more than a false sense of security, with no previous experience and nothing but unsubstantiated, possibly fake representation of what guns are and are capable of, then this is not a good direction for them to take.

 

[Lilhigbee]

How big is Mic Dundee's Spread?

She's about 5' 7", 135 pounds.

 

[orygun]

He was, beyond any doubt, the definition of smarta$$ personified. I would personally have spat in his hat. I can NOT abide the 'I've been doing XYZ longer than you have, have got more trophies than you have, more guns etc than you have' kind of guy.

Yeah, like he was setting a trap to show his "superiority".
I don't like braggarts. I do me best to not be a braggart, especially when talking to someone about my experience(s). I do like to talk to someone who is well versed in subjects I am interested in as they may be a source of valuable information. But there is a big difference between discussing and bragging. When it makes that turn, I'm done.

Problem is lot of them are about guns for me not for thee type.

Yes they are. That's the opportunity to discuss "gun control" and how it will affect them, too.

Absolutely, but that's a big IF, if they can be educated into actually supporting gun rights.
I have a good friend who's a hunter and gun owner, but he supported Biden. He's a big union guy, and his union told him that Biden wasn't really going to push for gun control; he just said he was to get elected.

Might as well tell him to tape the next target to his foot.

 

[Boboclown]

Yes they are. That's the opportunity to discuss "gun control" and how it will affect them, too.

In my experiences, discussion means they just yell rhetoric at me and that I'M the reason we can't be trusted with guns.

Though I'm usually taking the stance of leave me be and there's no trouble.

 

[tac]

5,760,000 acres

Fixed it for ya

Didn't like you to think I was boasting..............